There are two kinds of reactions I’ve gotten when I tell people I’m reading “The Catcher in the Rye.” The first is a total non-reaction, where they have no idea what I’m talking about — evidently ...

J.D. Salinger’s private letters reveal why he feared his Jewish-Irish roots would overshadow 'The Catcher in the Rye.', Books ...

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Exclusive: Author asked to remove reference to his ‘Jewish-Irishness’ from book jacket of The Catcher in the Rye He was a reclusive author, who revealed little about himself or the inspiration for his ...

J.D. Salinger, reclusive author of Catcher in the Rye, died Wednesday at the New Hampshire home where he'd lived since the 1950s. He was 91. In addition to Catcher in the Rye, his most famous and best ...